Awards celebration co-sponsored by American Chemical Society and American Institute of Physics Join us in opening the conference exhibit hall and toasting award-winning science journalists around the world!

Sponsored by Johnson & Johnson Innovation, WCSJ2017 Diamond Sponsor Tonight, we celebrate the conference with a reception at the stunning California Academy of Sciences. The evening’s theme, Farm–>Table, will showcase California’s...

A preconference event sponsored and organized by The Hastings Center Advanced registration required. CRISPR greatly enhances the ease and affordability of gene editing. It is being used to modify plants...

A luncheon event organized by eLife, with support from additional sponsors Advanced registration required. This hosted luncheon event will explore how changes in science publishing are affecting how research is conducted,...

A sponsored luncheon program offered by AstraZeneca Advanced registration required. Every day, the DNA in our cells is damaged tens of thousands of times by natural and external factors.(1) Fortunately,...

Hosted event sponsored by 23andMe and Johnson & Johnson Innovation Advance registration required. Update November 6: Results of the audience survey taken at the luncheon are now posted. Download “Audience...

With facts and truth increasingly under assault, many interest groups have enlisted data visualization to support all manner of spin. Because digital images and graphics are inherently sharable and can...

Two internationally known book authors—Steve Silberman, author of Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, and Ed Yong, author of I Contain Multitudes—join fellow author and moderator...

Pseudoscience deceives millions of people every day. Although scientists and journalists try to expose baseless assertions, governments around the world often will make decisions based on such claims or on...

A preconference event sponsored and organized by The Hastings Center Advanced registration required. CRISPR greatly enhances the ease and affordability of gene editing. It is being used to modify plants...

Open only to students funded by WCSJ2017 student travel fellowships. All U.S. and international student travel fellows will attend a mandatory half-day orientation and skills workshop to preview their assignments...

A preconference workshop sponsored by the Research Councils UK and produced by the World Federation of Science Journalists Advanced registration required. Participants should arrive in San Francisco by Tuesday evening,...

A preconference workshop sponsored by the Research Councils UK and produced by the World Federation of Science Journalists Advanced registration required. Description This half-day workshop will cover elements of the...

Advance registration required. This hands-on workshop is designed for science journalists who have some experience or training in data journalism and are comfortable writing computer code and working with statistics....

As well-paid, freelance commissions in science journalism become harder to find, freelancers are supplementing their income by providing science writing services to the public and private sectors, teaching or accepting...

A range of technologies, including cloud and mobile computing, big data and machine learning, sensors and intelligent manufacturing, and robotics and drones, are transforming societies around the world. Nowhere will...

The ocean is arguably the planet’s greatest natural wonder, covering nearly three-quarters of the earth’s surface, providing many ecosystem services and supporting an abundance of life. Unfortunately, human activities are...

Latin America is a region rich in science. Although science here lacks the financial support found in other regions, scientists engage in rigorous and important research throughout the continent. The...

New digital outlets focusing on serious science journalism often anticipate that their “digital native” readers will be more engaged in the wider world and potentially more involved with their communities...

Philanthropists around the world are giving huge sums to science research. To name just a handful: Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s commitment of $3 billion to biomedical research initiatives Paul...

Sexual harassment in science burst into the public spotlight when a series of major media stories revealed serious allegations against prominent scientists in astrophysics, anthropology, biology, public health and medicine....

Dinosaurs are the stars of Latin American science, and usually dinosaur stories quickly spread around the world. In 2012 in the southernmost corner of the Americas, Argentine paleontologists discovered the...

If you are a science journalist—and we think there is a high probability that you are—you will encounter research with “statistically significant” findings. Some of us regularly report on studies—in...

Science is at the heart of many of the world’s greatest crises, including infectious disease outbreaks, weather and climate related catastrophes, and energy sector exploitation and accidents. When science journalists...

There is no greater science-and-society gap than the one between scientists and indigenous people. To bridge this gap, researchers and health journalists are charged with being sensitive, open and understanding...

There is near-universal recognition now that antibiotic resistance, generated by overuse and misuse in medicine and agriculture, is a grave global problem. It accounts for an estimated 700,000 deaths per...

Science is an international business, major stories are cross-border or even global and the need for independent journalism to reflect this is vital. Yet the constraints journalists face regarding their...

Covering the slow-burn, unsexy stories of long-term environmental crises can be a greater challenge than ever for science journalists working in a 24/7 news cycle. Too often coverage bends inexorably...

There may be as many different approaches to teaching science journalism as there are fields to cover. This session is aimed at academics, journalists and communicators who are teaching science journalism...

Can advocacy journalism, which demands close involvement, and science journalism, which requires distance, be bedfellows? Do journalists relinquish their objectivity when advocating on an issue? Is it necessary for science...

Undercover reporting—doing a journalistic investigation while pretending not be a journalist—has been interwoven with science and health journalism probably since Nellie Bly’s famous 1887 book, Ten Days in a Mad-House....

The advances we have made in understanding cancer over the past decade have been so rapid and profound that clichés often attached to scientific process—revolution, paradigm shift, Golden Age—seem almost...

With facts and truth increasingly under assault, many interest groups have enlisted data visualization to support all manner of spin. Because digital images and graphics are inherently sharable and can...

Two internationally known book authors—Steve Silberman, author of Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, and Ed Yong, author of I Contain Multitudes—join fellow author and moderator...

Pseudoscience deceives millions of people every day. Although scientists and journalists try to expose baseless assertions, governments around the world often will make decisions based on such claims or on...

A preconference event sponsored and organized by The Hastings Center Advanced registration required. CRISPR greatly enhances the ease and affordability of gene editing. It is being used to modify plants...

Registration is required. Meet a schizophrenia researcher who developed the illness himself, and hear first-hand how that experience changed his science. Discuss how science communication could itself be improved through...

Open to all registrants attending sessions at UCSF. No signup required. Presented in conjunction with the Bay Area Science Festival, at UCSF’s Science Expo you will: Experience holographic surgical planning....

Registration is required. This tour will be offered twice. Visit the state-of-the-art Gladstone Institutes, an academically affiliated research enterprise next to UCSF’s Mission Bay Campus, where Gladstone scientists will demonstrate...

Registration is required. Gather for lunch with pioneers of tomorrow’s cancer treatments. At this informal event, sponsored by the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (HDFCCC) and moderated by acclaimed journalist...

Open only to students funded by WCSJ2017 student travel fellowships. All U.S. and international student travel fellows will attend a mandatory half-day orientation and skills workshop to preview their assignments...

A preconference workshop sponsored by the Research Councils UK and produced by the World Federation of Science Journalists Advanced registration required. Participants should arrive in San Francisco by Tuesday evening,...

A preconference workshop sponsored by the Research Councils UK and produced by the World Federation of Science Journalists Advanced registration required. Description This half-day workshop will cover elements of the...

Advance registration required. This hands-on workshop is designed for science journalists who have some experience or training in data journalism and are comfortable writing computer code and working with statistics....

Advanced registration required. Through decades of lobbying, the tobacco industry has provided a blueprint for using, or even corrupting, scientists to muddle evidence and meddle in public policies around the...